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Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has completed a public plaza with a haphazard layout in Catalinas Norte, the financial heart of Buenos Aires.
The urban landscape, named PlazaCatalinas, is made up of triangular segments and sits at the foot of a glass tower in the business district.
Designed to defy the rigidity of its metropolitan surroundings, architects Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden introduced a haphazard layout, with variations in surface heights and finishes.
"The irregular geometry of the plot contrasts with the orthogonal footprint of the tower, which liberates the surrounding area with undefined identity” Adamo Faiden told Dezeen.
"The design process consisted of compressing and dilating this pattern, both horizontally and vertically," they continued. "In this way, vehicular accesses, fire escapes, lighting racks, all types of ventilation, pedestrian circuits and vegetation, could be integrated into the project."
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Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio teamed up to design this pair of 180-metre skyscrapers, which stand at the intersection of Shanghai's old town and a new financial district, the BundFinanceCentre.
The "landmark" towers are located on the south side of the Bund Finance Centre, a 420,000-square-metre masterplan developed by the two studios.
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Hong Kong is more known for its financial expertise than technological innovations. So with studies showing the city lagging competitors on financial technology, or fintech, what are the city's entrepreneurs doing about it?
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A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months.
The Ocean Cleanup foundation, initiated by Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat when he was just 20 years old, announced the development at an event in Utrecht earlier this month.
Slat said the first major operation will begin in 2018 in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of mainly plastic waste located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
The team will use a floating barrier to slowly push the plastic to shore. This update of the initial design, which was recognised at the Designs of The Year awards in 2015, will be weighted to move with the current instead of fixed to the sea bed. Once ashore, the waste plastic would be recycled and turned into sellable products to help fund the project.
"We thought what if instead of fixing the system to the seabed, we fixed it to this deeper water level where the current isn't as strong," said Slat. "The system would start to drift – but that's entirely okay because as long as it moves slower than the plastic we will collect plastic."
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CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explains how Hong Kong's significance is coming under pressure as China pushes to become more open to the world.
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Financial centre

A financial centre is a location that is home to a cluster of nationally or internationally significant financial services providers such as banks, investment managers or stock exchanges. A prominent financial centre can be described as an international financial centre or a global financial centre and is often also a global city. An offshore financial centre is typically a smaller, low-tax jurisdiction that primarily serves non-residents.

Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific (abbreviated as Asia-Pac, AsPac, APAC, APJ, JAPA or JAPAC) is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. The region varies in size depending on which context, but it typically includes much of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.

Alternatively, the term sometimes comprises all of Asia and Australasia as well as small/medium/large Pacific island nations (Asia Pacific and Australasian Continent) - for example when dividing the world into large regions for commercial purposes (e.g. into Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific).

On the whole there appears to be no clear cut definition of "Asia Pacific" and the regions included change as per the context.

Though imprecise, the term has become popular since the late 1980s in commerce, finance and politics. In fact, despite the heterogeneity of the regions' economies, most individual nations within the zone are emerging markets experiencing rapid growth. (Compare the concept/acronym APEJ or APeJ - Asia-Pacific excluding Japan.)

At 165.25 million square kilometers (63.8 million square miles) in area, this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth's land area combined.

The equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with two exceptions: the Galápagos and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific. The Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific is the deepest point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,911 metres (35,797ft).

Pacific Financial Center Fire Life Safety Video

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25:07

Asia Pacific's Leading Midshore International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Asia Pacific's Leading Midshore International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Asia Pacific's Leading Midshore International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has completed a public plaza with a haphazard layout in Catalinas Norte, the financial heart of Buenos Aires.
The urban landscape, named PlazaCatalinas, is made up of triangular segments and sits at the foot of a glass tower in the business district.
Designed to defy the rigidity of its metropolitan surroundings, architects Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden introduced a haphazard layout, with variations in surface heights and finishes.
"The irregular geometry of the plot contrasts with the orthogonal footprint of the tower, which liberates the surrounding area with undefined identity” Adamo Faiden told Dezeen.
"The design process consisted of compressing and dilating this pattern, both horizontally and vertically," they continued. "In this way, vehicular accesses, fire escapes, lighting racks, all types of ventilation, pedestrian circuits and vegetation, could be integrated into the project."
Read more on Dezeen: http://www.dezeen.com/?p=1083135
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Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio teamed up to design this pair of 180-metre skyscrapers, which stand at the intersection of Shanghai's old town and a new financial district, the BundFinanceCentre.
The "landmark" towers are located on the south side of the Bund Finance Centre, a 420,000-square-metre masterplan developed by the two studios.
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Hong Kong Two Decades: Financial center vows to grow fintech

Hong Kong Two Decades: Financial center vows to grow fintech

Hong Kong Two Decades: Financial center vows to grow fintech

Hong Kong is more known for its financial expertise than technological innovations. So with studies showing the city lagging competitors on financial technology, or fintech, what are the city's entrepreneurs doing about it?
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The Ocean Cleanup will begin extracting plastic from the Pacific in 2018

The Ocean Cleanup will begin extracting plastic from the Pacific in 2018

The Ocean Cleanup will begin extracting plastic from the Pacific in 2018

A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months.
The Ocean Cleanup foundation, initiated by Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat when he was just 20 years old, announced the development at an event in Utrecht earlier this month.
Slat said the first major operation will begin in 2018 in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of mainly plastic waste located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
The team will use a floating barrier to slowly push the plastic to shore. This update of the initial design, which was recognised at the Designs of The Year awards in 2015, will be weighted to move with the current instead of fixed to the sea bed. Once ashore, the waste plastic would be recycled and turned into sellable products to help fund the project.
"We thought what if instead of fixing the system to the seabed, we fixed it to this deeper water level where the current isn't as strong," said Slat. "The system would start to drift – but that's entirely okay because as long as it moves slower than the plastic we will collect plastic."
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Is China threatening Asia's financial center? | CNBC Explains

Is China threatening Asia's financial center? | CNBC Explains

Is China threatening Asia's financial center? | CNBC Explains

CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explains how Hong Kong's significance is coming under pressure as China pushes to become more open to the world.
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Accelerating Financial Inclusion in the Least Developed Countries in Asia and Pacific

Accelerating Financial Inclusion in the Least Developed Countries in Asia and Pacific

Accelerating Financial Inclusion in the Least Developed Countries in Asia and Pacific

Manchester Financial Centre

SAN FRANCISCO (1996) VIEW BY CABLE CAR,THE MOST POPULOUS CITY IN CALIFORNIA.

SAN FRANCISCO (1996) VIEW BY CABLE CAR,THE MOST POPULOUS CITY IN CALIFORNIA.

SAN FRANCISCO (1996) VIEW BY CABLE CAR,THE MOST POPULOUS CITY IN CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358The only consolidated city-county in California,it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.
In 1776, the Spanish established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site. The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
Today, San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, renowned for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions,helping to make San Francisco eighteenth place in the world's top producing cities, ninth in the United States, and fifteenth place in the top twenty Global Financial Centers.

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(20 Oct 2017) Hong Kong's last remaining stock market floor traders are taking their final orders as the exchange prepares to shut its trading hall, joining other world exchanges in going fully automated.
The bourse's operator, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, says it will close the trading hall by the end of the month and turn the space into a showcase for the city's financial markets.
Yip Wing-keung, a trading manager at brokerage Christfund Securities, has been a floor trader since the hall opened in 1986 after four previous exchanges were merged.
He donned his red trading jacket for the last time on Friday, his final day on the floor, after more than 30 years.
He and the other few floor traders left have been moving out ahead of the closure.
The shutdown marks the end of an era for the stock market, which symbolised the city's ascent as an Asian finance hub.
Activity on the floor, one of a few such venues left worldwide, dwindled as stock dealing became fully computerised.
Yip said the floor traders resisted the closure; they sent a protest letter to the government but it was in vain.
Hong Kong's stock exchange, Asia's third biggest by volume, follows other global peers like Tokyo, Singapore and London that have eliminated their trading floors.
In the US, floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange still provide the backdrop for financial TV news reports and bell-ringing ceremonies.
But Chicago and New York commodity futures trading pits, where traders used old-fashioned "open outcry" techniques, have shut in recent years as volume fell to 1 percent of the total.
Hong Kong Exchanges stopped updating stats for floor trading in 2014, when it accounted for less than 1 percent of monthly turnover.
In the 1980s and 1990s the hall housed more than 900 trading desks.
The exchange's most recent count showed only 62 dealing desks were leased, with about 30 traders showing up on an average day.
On a visit to the hall this week, only about seven traders could be seen.
Back in its heyday, floor trading was computer-assisted but dealers still needed to talk to each other to complete transactions, either by phone or in person, depending on how far away they sat from each other, Yip said.
In recent times however, Yip just punched orders into his computer.
He doesn't look forward to returning to his head office.
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MALAYSIA: LABUAN PLANS TO BE A MAJOR FINANCIAL CENTRE

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Malaysia is in the final stages of turning a tropical island in the South China Sea into a major financial centre to rival the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore.
Labuan island - once a pirate's lair - is encouraging businesses to locate there with tax breaks as an incentive.
Labuan lies off the north-west coast of Borneo, near oil rich Brunei.
The island is only 92 km (60 miles) square and has a population of around 35-thousand.
Labuan was once a lair for pirates. In the18th and 19th centuries, Labuan and the isles off its shores were infested with pirates, as the headstones in the city graveyard show.
Now the island has become a tax haven. In October 1990, the Malaysian government declared it an international offshore financial centre.
At the time, it had little more to offer but the promise of sun, sea, sand and palm trees. Now that is changing.
Hundreds of (m) millions of U-S dollars are being pumped into this sleepy backwater to transform it into a world-class financial centre to serve the growing financial markets of the Asia-Pacific.
A large office and shopping complex is nearing completion.
On a visit to the sparkling new financial park, Malaysia's deputy Prime Minister laid the last stone.
By offering companies incentives to set up on the island, the government has already managed to attract 41 of the world's leading banks.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Ladies and gentlemen, today's ceremony marks a major step forward in the Malaysian government's strong commitment to transform Labuan into a premium offshore financial centre. The financial park complex is only the first of a series of integrated projects to be undertaken here."
SUPERCAPTION: Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister
As the smart money has moved in, Labuan has, almost overnight, acquired a new mosque, a new town square, a new hospital, new marina and new luxury hotel.
Telecommunication links have come too with giant satellite dishes angled skywards.
Major financial institutions are optimistic about the future.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Now that we can boast of about 41 offshore banks in Labuan, seventeen of whom are in the top 25 in the world. This has contributed to us increasing Labuan's international presence, and that has lent a great deal of credibility to Labuan."
SUPER CAPTION: Nathaniel Savarimuthu, general manager Public Bank, Labuan
Some in the Asian business community have cast doubts about the viability of a financial island such as Labuan, but the government is determined that it will prove able to keep pace with the finest financial centres of the world. It confidently predicts that by 1997, the island will be the pearl of the South China Sea.
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Singapore Financial Centre

Singapore Financial Centre

Singapore Financial Centre

In just over four decades, Singapore has established a thriving financial centre of international repute, serving not only its domestic economy, but also the wider Asia Pacific region. Singapore's financial centre offers a broad range of financial services including banking, insurance, investment banking and treasury services.

15:30

The PMC Project - a Pacific Media Centre profile (AUT)

The PMC Project - a Pacific Media Centre profile (AUT)

The PMC Project - a Pacific Media Centre profile (AUT)

A short documentary by Alistar Kata
AUCKLAND: In 2009, a short video was made by AUT television students JohnPulu and SophieJohnson about the work of the Pacific Media Centre.
Now a new programme, a 15min documentary by Pacific Media Watch project contributing editor Alistar Kata has been made.
Dubbed The PMCProject, it is a compelling video about the student journalists and staff involved and their research and media reports.
Among the people interviewed are founding PMC director Dr David Robie; award-winning documentary maker Jim Marbrook; graduating postgraduate student KP Lew, who was in internship in Fiji earlier this year; and Alistar herself - and many others are featured.
The people tell their inspiring story themselves. Quote:
"The centre is quite unique in that it was actually founded as both a research unit and media producer. We have the PMC online itself, which has a range of news and current affairs resources, but then we also have an industry partnership with PacificScoop and we’re also about to start a new one called Asia PacificReport. We also do research publications, we publish PJR… plus we have internships, we send our students from the centre around the Pacific, and also in the Asian region as well to work for media internships and so on. We run a very good monitoring service, the Pacific Media Watch service."
More about The PMC Project at the centre's new website Asia Pacific Report: http://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/01/28/9147/
Reporter/Editor: Alistar Kata, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch project.
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Pacific Financial Center Fire Life Safety Video

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The owners and management of the PacificFinancial Center are concerned with the personal safety of everyone in the building. Pacific Financial Center is one of the premier office locations in the entire Los Angeles area.
We are proud of the facilities and services we provide for the comfort, convenience and safety of all of you who make this your professional and business home.
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published: 16 Jan 2013

Asia Pacific's Leading Midshore International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has completed a public plaza with a haphazard layout in Catalinas Norte, the financial heart of Buenos Aires.
The urban landscape, named PlazaCatalinas, is made up of triangular segments and sits at the foot of a glass tower in the business district.
Designed to defy the rigidity of its metropolitan surroundings, architects Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden introduced a haphazard layout, with variations in surface heights and finishes.
"The irregular geometry of the plot contrasts with the orthogonal footprint of the tower, which liberates the surrounding area with undefined identity” Adamo Faiden told Dezeen.
"The design process consisted of compressing and dilating this pattern, both horizontally and vertically," they continued. "In this way, vehicul...

Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio teamed up to design this pair of 180-metre skyscrapers, which stand at the intersection of Shanghai's old town and a new financial district, the BundFinanceCentre.
The "landmark" towers are located on the south side of the Bund Finance Centre, a 420,000-square-metre masterplan developed by the two studios.
Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/?p=1139534
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Hong Kong Two Decades: Financial center vows to grow fintech

Hong Kong is more known for its financial expertise than technological innovations. So with studies showing the city lagging competitors on financial technology, or fintech, what are the city's entrepreneurs doing about it?
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The Ocean Cleanup will begin extracting plastic from the Pacific in 2018

A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months.
The Ocean Cleanup foundation, initiated by Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat when he was just 20 years old, announced the development at an event in Utrecht earlier this month.
Slat said the first major operation will begin in 2018 in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of mainly plastic waste located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
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Is China threatening Asia's financial center? | CNBC Explains

CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explains how Hong Kong's significance is coming under pressure as China pushes to become more open to the world.
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Accelerating Financial Inclusion in the Least Developed Countries in Asia and Pacific

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SAN FRANCISCO (1996) VIEW BY CABLE CAR,THE MOST POPULOUS CITY IN CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358The only consolidated city-county in California,it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.
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(20 Oct 2017) Hong Kong's last remaining stock market floor traders are taking their final orders as the exchange prepares to shut its trading hall, joining other world exchanges in going fully automated.
The bourse's operator, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, says it will close the trading hall by the end of the month and turn the space into a showcase for the city's financial markets.
Yip Wing-keung, a trading manager at brokerage Christfund Securities, has been a floor trader since the hall opened in 1986 after four previous exchanges were merged.
He donned his red trading jacket for the last time on Friday, his final day on the floor, after more than 30 years.
He and the other few floor traders left have been moving out ahead of the closure.
The shutdown marks the end of an era ...

MALAYSIA: LABUAN PLANS TO BE A MAJOR FINANCIAL CENTRE

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Malaysia is in the final stages of turning a tropical island in the South China Sea into a major financial centre to rival the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore.
Labuan island - once a pirate's lair - is encouraging businesses to locate there with tax breaks as an incentive.
Labuan lies off the north-west coast of Borneo, near oil rich Brunei.
The island is only 92 km (60 miles) square and has a population of around 35-thousand.
Labuan was once a lair for pirates. In the18th and 19th centuries, Labuan and the isles off its shores were infested with pirates, as the headstones in the city graveyard show.
Now the island has become a tax haven. In October 1990, the Malaysian government declared it an international offshore financial centre.
At the time, it ha...

published: 21 Jul 2015

Singapore Financial Centre

In just over four decades, Singapore has established a thriving financial centre of international repute, serving not only its domestic economy, but also the wider Asia Pacific region. Singapore's financial centre offers a broad range of financial services including banking, insurance, investment banking and treasury services.

published: 05 Apr 2013

The PMC Project - a Pacific Media Centre profile (AUT)

A short documentary by Alistar Kata
AUCKLAND: In 2009, a short video was made by AUT television students JohnPulu and SophieJohnson about the work of the Pacific Media Centre.
Now a new programme, a 15min documentary by Pacific Media Watch project contributing editor Alistar Kata has been made.
Dubbed The PMCProject, it is a compelling video about the student journalists and staff involved and their research and media reports.
Among the people interviewed are founding PMC director Dr David Robie; award-winning documentary maker Jim Marbrook; graduating postgraduate student KP Lew, who was in internship in Fiji earlier this year; and Alistar herself - and many others are featured.
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Pacific Financial Center Fire Life Safety Video

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We are proud of the facilities and services we provide for the comfort, convenience and safety of all of you who make this your professional and business home.
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The owners and management of the PacificFinancial Center are concerned with the personal safety of everyone in the building. Pacific Financial Center is one of the premier office locations in the entire Los Angeles area.
We are proud of the facilities and services we provide for the comfort, convenience and safety of all of you who make this your professional and business home.
It is the purpose of this video to identify potential hazards and outline some procedures each of us should follow. We sincerely hope that no such emergency will ever occur. If one does, however, each one of us will be better prepared to cope with that possible future emergency after completion of this brief course of instruction.
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Asia Pacific's Leading Midshore International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has completed a public plaza with a haphazard layout in Catalinas Norte, the financial heart of Buenos Aires.
The urban landscape, named PlazaCatalinas, is made up of triangular segments and sits at the foot of a glass tower in the business district.
Designed to defy the rigidity of its metropolitan surroundings, architects Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden introduced a haphazard layout, with variations in surface heights and finishes.
"The irregular geometry of the plot contrasts with the orthogonal footprint of the tower, which liberates the surrounding area with undefined identity” Adamo Faiden told Dezeen.
"The design process consisted of compressing and dilating this pattern, both horizontally and vertically," they continued. "In this way, vehicular accesses, fire escapes, lighting racks, all types of ventilation, pedestrian circuits and vegetation, could be integrated into the project."
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Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has completed a public plaza with a haphazard layout in Catalinas Norte, the financial heart of Buenos Aires.
The urban landscape, named PlazaCatalinas, is made up of triangular segments and sits at the foot of a glass tower in the business district.
Designed to defy the rigidity of its metropolitan surroundings, architects Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden introduced a haphazard layout, with variations in surface heights and finishes.
"The irregular geometry of the plot contrasts with the orthogonal footprint of the tower, which liberates the surrounding area with undefined identity” Adamo Faiden told Dezeen.
"The design process consisted of compressing and dilating this pattern, both horizontally and vertically," they continued. "In this way, vehicular accesses, fire escapes, lighting racks, all types of ventilation, pedestrian circuits and vegetation, could be integrated into the project."
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Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio teamed up to design this pair of 180-metre skyscrapers, which stand at the intersection of Shanghai's old town and a new financial district, the BundFinanceCentre.
The "landmark" towers are located on the south side of the Bund Finance Centre, a 420,000-square-metre masterplan developed by the two studios.
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Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio teamed up to design this pair of 180-metre skyscrapers, which stand at the intersection of Shanghai's old town and a new financial district, the BundFinanceCentre.
The "landmark" towers are located on the south side of the Bund Finance Centre, a 420,000-square-metre masterplan developed by the two studios.
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The Ocean Cleanup will begin extracting plastic from the Pacific in 2018

A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months.
The Ocean Cl...

A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months.
The Ocean Cleanup foundation, initiated by Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat when he was just 20 years old, announced the development at an event in Utrecht earlier this month.
Slat said the first major operation will begin in 2018 in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of mainly plastic waste located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
The team will use a floating barrier to slowly push the plastic to shore. This update of the initial design, which was recognised at the Designs of The Year awards in 2015, will be weighted to move with the current instead of fixed to the sea bed. Once ashore, the waste plastic would be recycled and turned into sellable products to help fund the project.
"We thought what if instead of fixing the system to the seabed, we fixed it to this deeper water level where the current isn't as strong," said Slat. "The system would start to drift – but that's entirely okay because as long as it moves slower than the plastic we will collect plastic."
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A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months.
The Ocean Cleanup foundation, initiated by Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat when he was just 20 years old, announced the development at an event in Utrecht earlier this month.
Slat said the first major operation will begin in 2018 in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of mainly plastic waste located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
The team will use a floating barrier to slowly push the plastic to shore. This update of the initial design, which was recognised at the Designs of The Year awards in 2015, will be weighted to move with the current instead of fixed to the sea bed. Once ashore, the waste plastic would be recycled and turned into sellable products to help fund the project.
"We thought what if instead of fixing the system to the seabed, we fixed it to this deeper water level where the current isn't as strong," said Slat. "The system would start to drift – but that's entirely okay because as long as it moves slower than the plastic we will collect plastic."
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Is China threatening Asia's financial center? | CNBC Explains

CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explains how Hong Kong's significance is coming under pressure as China pushes to become more open to the world.
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Accelerating Financial Inclusion in the Least Developed Countries in Asia and Pacific

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358The only consolidated city-county in California,it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.
In 1776, the Spanish established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site. The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
Today, San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, renowned for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions,helping to make San Francisco eighteenth place in the world's top producing cities, ninth in the United States, and fifteenth place in the top twenty Global Financial Centers.

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358The only consolidated city-county in California,it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.
In 1776, the Spanish established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site. The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
Today, San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, renowned for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions,helping to make San Francisco eighteenth place in the world's top producing cities, ninth in the United States, and fifteenth place in the top twenty Global Financial Centers.

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Unlike previous ages, the Fourth Industrial Age is characterised by an assortment of exponential technologies that blend the digital, biological and physical spheres and are set to create change at an unprecedented rate (Schwab, n.d.).
These disruptions and the technological displacement set to follow are predicted to impact most disciplines and industries causing us to rethink the nature of work and even what it means to be human.
The predicted disruptions and shifts of the new age provide both great promise and great threat and will invariably impact how we think about, organise and execute work. As such, the time for preparedness is now.

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Phillip is the Associate Vice-Chancellor for CQ University’s New South Wales region and head of the Sydney campus. He has responsibility for business growth and development, regional engagement, teaching and learning, research and the pastoral care of students and staff.
Phillip is an experienced leader in executive education and higher education management and a non-executive director and board consultant. He previously served six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Senior Lecturer (Public Relations) at The University of Notre Dame (Sydney campus). He also taught across a range of business and communication subjects at Macquarie University, UTS and the University of Wollongong, and worked as a journalist for business and trade publications. He is the lead author of CommunicationSkills for Business Professionals (Cambridge University Press) and has written for CompanyDirector.
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The Future of Work (FOW) Insights Series focuses on the unfolding mega-trends of the FourthIndustrial Age, also known as the Machine Age, and the essential competencies and capabilities required for leaders to successfully navigate this rapidly evolving environment into the 2020s and beyond.
Unlike previous ages, the Fourth Industrial Age is characterised by an assortment of exponential technologies that blend the digital, biological and physical spheres and are set to create change at an unprecedented rate (Schwab, n.d.).
These disruptions and the technological displacement set to follow are predicted to impact most disciplines and industries causing us to rethink the nature of work and even what it means to be human.
The predicted disruptions and shifts of the new age provide both great promise and great threat and will invariably impact how we think about, organise and execute work. As such, the time for preparedness is now.

(20 Oct 2017) Hong Kong's last remaining stock market floor traders are taking their final orders as the exchange prepares to shut its trading hall, joining other world exchanges in going fully automated.
The bourse's operator, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, says it will close the trading hall by the end of the month and turn the space into a showcase for the city's financial markets.
Yip Wing-keung, a trading manager at brokerage Christfund Securities, has been a floor trader since the hall opened in 1986 after four previous exchanges were merged.
He donned his red trading jacket for the last time on Friday, his final day on the floor, after more than 30 years.
He and the other few floor traders left have been moving out ahead of the closure.
The shutdown marks the end of an era for the stock market, which symbolised the city's ascent as an Asian finance hub.
Activity on the floor, one of a few such venues left worldwide, dwindled as stock dealing became fully computerised.
Yip said the floor traders resisted the closure; they sent a protest letter to the government but it was in vain.
Hong Kong's stock exchange, Asia's third biggest by volume, follows other global peers like Tokyo, Singapore and London that have eliminated their trading floors.
In the US, floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange still provide the backdrop for financial TV news reports and bell-ringing ceremonies.
But Chicago and New York commodity futures trading pits, where traders used old-fashioned "open outcry" techniques, have shut in recent years as volume fell to 1 percent of the total.
Hong Kong Exchanges stopped updating stats for floor trading in 2014, when it accounted for less than 1 percent of monthly turnover.
In the 1980s and 1990s the hall housed more than 900 trading desks.
The exchange's most recent count showed only 62 dealing desks were leased, with about 30 traders showing up on an average day.
On a visit to the hall this week, only about seven traders could be seen.
Back in its heyday, floor trading was computer-assisted but dealers still needed to talk to each other to complete transactions, either by phone or in person, depending on how far away they sat from each other, Yip said.
In recent times however, Yip just punched orders into his computer.
He doesn't look forward to returning to his head office.
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(20 Oct 2017) Hong Kong's last remaining stock market floor traders are taking their final orders as the exchange prepares to shut its trading hall, joining other world exchanges in going fully automated.
The bourse's operator, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, says it will close the trading hall by the end of the month and turn the space into a showcase for the city's financial markets.
Yip Wing-keung, a trading manager at brokerage Christfund Securities, has been a floor trader since the hall opened in 1986 after four previous exchanges were merged.
He donned his red trading jacket for the last time on Friday, his final day on the floor, after more than 30 years.
He and the other few floor traders left have been moving out ahead of the closure.
The shutdown marks the end of an era for the stock market, which symbolised the city's ascent as an Asian finance hub.
Activity on the floor, one of a few such venues left worldwide, dwindled as stock dealing became fully computerised.
Yip said the floor traders resisted the closure; they sent a protest letter to the government but it was in vain.
Hong Kong's stock exchange, Asia's third biggest by volume, follows other global peers like Tokyo, Singapore and London that have eliminated their trading floors.
In the US, floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange still provide the backdrop for financial TV news reports and bell-ringing ceremonies.
But Chicago and New York commodity futures trading pits, where traders used old-fashioned "open outcry" techniques, have shut in recent years as volume fell to 1 percent of the total.
Hong Kong Exchanges stopped updating stats for floor trading in 2014, when it accounted for less than 1 percent of monthly turnover.
In the 1980s and 1990s the hall housed more than 900 trading desks.
The exchange's most recent count showed only 62 dealing desks were leased, with about 30 traders showing up on an average day.
On a visit to the hall this week, only about seven traders could be seen.
Back in its heyday, floor trading was computer-assisted but dealers still needed to talk to each other to complete transactions, either by phone or in person, depending on how far away they sat from each other, Yip said.
In recent times however, Yip just punched orders into his computer.
He doesn't look forward to returning to his head office.
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English/Nat
Malaysia is in the final stages of turning a tropical island in the South China Sea into a major financial centre to rival the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore.
Labuan island - once a pirate's lair - is encouraging businesses to locate there with tax breaks as an incentive.
Labuan lies off the north-west coast of Borneo, near oil rich Brunei.
The island is only 92 km (60 miles) square and has a population of around 35-thousand.
Labuan was once a lair for pirates. In the18th and 19th centuries, Labuan and the isles off its shores were infested with pirates, as the headstones in the city graveyard show.
Now the island has become a tax haven. In October 1990, the Malaysian government declared it an international offshore financial centre.
At the time, it had little more to offer but the promise of sun, sea, sand and palm trees. Now that is changing.
Hundreds of (m) millions of U-S dollars are being pumped into this sleepy backwater to transform it into a world-class financial centre to serve the growing financial markets of the Asia-Pacific.
A large office and shopping complex is nearing completion.
On a visit to the sparkling new financial park, Malaysia's deputy Prime Minister laid the last stone.
By offering companies incentives to set up on the island, the government has already managed to attract 41 of the world's leading banks.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Ladies and gentlemen, today's ceremony marks a major step forward in the Malaysian government's strong commitment to transform Labuan into a premium offshore financial centre. The financial park complex is only the first of a series of integrated projects to be undertaken here."
SUPERCAPTION: Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister
As the smart money has moved in, Labuan has, almost overnight, acquired a new mosque, a new town square, a new hospital, new marina and new luxury hotel.
Telecommunication links have come too with giant satellite dishes angled skywards.
Major financial institutions are optimistic about the future.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Now that we can boast of about 41 offshore banks in Labuan, seventeen of whom are in the top 25 in the world. This has contributed to us increasing Labuan's international presence, and that has lent a great deal of credibility to Labuan."
SUPER CAPTION: Nathaniel Savarimuthu, general manager Public Bank, Labuan
Some in the Asian business community have cast doubts about the viability of a financial island such as Labuan, but the government is determined that it will prove able to keep pace with the finest financial centres of the world. It confidently predicts that by 1997, the island will be the pearl of the South China Sea.
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English/Nat
Malaysia is in the final stages of turning a tropical island in the South China Sea into a major financial centre to rival the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore.
Labuan island - once a pirate's lair - is encouraging businesses to locate there with tax breaks as an incentive.
Labuan lies off the north-west coast of Borneo, near oil rich Brunei.
The island is only 92 km (60 miles) square and has a population of around 35-thousand.
Labuan was once a lair for pirates. In the18th and 19th centuries, Labuan and the isles off its shores were infested with pirates, as the headstones in the city graveyard show.
Now the island has become a tax haven. In October 1990, the Malaysian government declared it an international offshore financial centre.
At the time, it had little more to offer but the promise of sun, sea, sand and palm trees. Now that is changing.
Hundreds of (m) millions of U-S dollars are being pumped into this sleepy backwater to transform it into a world-class financial centre to serve the growing financial markets of the Asia-Pacific.
A large office and shopping complex is nearing completion.
On a visit to the sparkling new financial park, Malaysia's deputy Prime Minister laid the last stone.
By offering companies incentives to set up on the island, the government has already managed to attract 41 of the world's leading banks.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Ladies and gentlemen, today's ceremony marks a major step forward in the Malaysian government's strong commitment to transform Labuan into a premium offshore financial centre. The financial park complex is only the first of a series of integrated projects to be undertaken here."
SUPERCAPTION: Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister
As the smart money has moved in, Labuan has, almost overnight, acquired a new mosque, a new town square, a new hospital, new marina and new luxury hotel.
Telecommunication links have come too with giant satellite dishes angled skywards.
Major financial institutions are optimistic about the future.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Now that we can boast of about 41 offshore banks in Labuan, seventeen of whom are in the top 25 in the world. This has contributed to us increasing Labuan's international presence, and that has lent a great deal of credibility to Labuan."
SUPER CAPTION: Nathaniel Savarimuthu, general manager Public Bank, Labuan
Some in the Asian business community have cast doubts about the viability of a financial island such as Labuan, but the government is determined that it will prove able to keep pace with the finest financial centres of the world. It confidently predicts that by 1997, the island will be the pearl of the South China Sea.
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Singapore Financial Centre

In just over four decades, Singapore has established a thriving financial centre of international repute, serving not only its domestic economy, but also the wi...

In just over four decades, Singapore has established a thriving financial centre of international repute, serving not only its domestic economy, but also the wider Asia Pacific region. Singapore's financial centre offers a broad range of financial services including banking, insurance, investment banking and treasury services.

In just over four decades, Singapore has established a thriving financial centre of international repute, serving not only its domestic economy, but also the wider Asia Pacific region. Singapore's financial centre offers a broad range of financial services including banking, insurance, investment banking and treasury services.

The PMC Project - a Pacific Media Centre profile (AUT)

A short documentary by Alistar Kata
AUCKLAND: In 2009, a short video was made by AUT television students JohnPulu and SophieJohnson about the work of the Pa...

A short documentary by Alistar Kata
AUCKLAND: In 2009, a short video was made by AUT television students JohnPulu and SophieJohnson about the work of the Pacific Media Centre.
Now a new programme, a 15min documentary by Pacific Media Watch project contributing editor Alistar Kata has been made.
Dubbed The PMCProject, it is a compelling video about the student journalists and staff involved and their research and media reports.
Among the people interviewed are founding PMC director Dr David Robie; award-winning documentary maker Jim Marbrook; graduating postgraduate student KP Lew, who was in internship in Fiji earlier this year; and Alistar herself - and many others are featured.
The people tell their inspiring story themselves. Quote:
"The centre is quite unique in that it was actually founded as both a research unit and media producer. We have the PMC online itself, which has a range of news and current affairs resources, but then we also have an industry partnership with PacificScoop and we’re also about to start a new one called Asia PacificReport. We also do research publications, we publish PJR… plus we have internships, we send our students from the centre around the Pacific, and also in the Asian region as well to work for media internships and so on. We run a very good monitoring service, the Pacific Media Watch service."
More about The PMC Project at the centre's new website Asia Pacific Report: http://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/01/28/9147/
Reporter/Editor: Alistar Kata, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch project.
Special thanks to:
Pacific Media Centre
School of Communication Studies, AUT
Dr David Robie
Jim Marbrook
KP Lew
Credits include:
Asia Pacific Report
Cap Bocage documentary
Del Abcede
Florent Erisouké
Mads Anneberg
Niklas Pedersen
Pacific Scoop
SelwynManning
Te Waha Nui
VictorMambor and Tabloid Jubi
Wansolwara

A short documentary by Alistar Kata
AUCKLAND: In 2009, a short video was made by AUT television students JohnPulu and SophieJohnson about the work of the Pacific Media Centre.
Now a new programme, a 15min documentary by Pacific Media Watch project contributing editor Alistar Kata has been made.
Dubbed The PMCProject, it is a compelling video about the student journalists and staff involved and their research and media reports.
Among the people interviewed are founding PMC director Dr David Robie; award-winning documentary maker Jim Marbrook; graduating postgraduate student KP Lew, who was in internship in Fiji earlier this year; and Alistar herself - and many others are featured.
The people tell their inspiring story themselves. Quote:
"The centre is quite unique in that it was actually founded as both a research unit and media producer. We have the PMC online itself, which has a range of news and current affairs resources, but then we also have an industry partnership with PacificScoop and we’re also about to start a new one called Asia PacificReport. We also do research publications, we publish PJR… plus we have internships, we send our students from the centre around the Pacific, and also in the Asian region as well to work for media internships and so on. We run a very good monitoring service, the Pacific Media Watch service."
More about The PMC Project at the centre's new website Asia Pacific Report: http://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/01/28/9147/
Reporter/Editor: Alistar Kata, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Centre’s Pacific Media Watch project.
Special thanks to:
Pacific Media Centre
School of Communication Studies, AUT
Dr David Robie
Jim Marbrook
KP Lew
Credits include:
Asia Pacific Report
Cap Bocage documentary
Del Abcede
Florent Erisouké
Mads Anneberg
Niklas Pedersen
Pacific Scoop
SelwynManning
Te Waha Nui
VictorMambor and Tabloid Jubi
Wansolwara

Fully furnished apartment for rent in Pacific Place Building

Please contact Ms Huong 0936 670 899 for more information
This apartment has 75 sqm of living area, designed a bedrooms, a bathrooms, a beautiful living room,...

Please contact Ms Huong 0936 670 899 for more information
This apartment has 75 sqm of living area, designed a bedrooms, a bathrooms, a beautiful living room, and a kitchen with well equipped. It is fully furnished such as sofa set, big screen TV, king size bed, wardrobe, cozy decoration, clean and bright with glass windows.
Pacific Place is located in the centre of Hanoi, easy access to Hanoi downtown or the financial centre. Pacific building is offering many facilities and services: Parking lot, swimming pool, fitness centre, The Rooftop bar & lounge
Price: 1000 usd/month

Please contact Ms Huong 0936 670 899 for more information
This apartment has 75 sqm of living area, designed a bedrooms, a bathrooms, a beautiful living room, and a kitchen with well equipped. It is fully furnished such as sofa set, big screen TV, king size bed, wardrobe, cozy decoration, clean and bright with glass windows.
Pacific Place is located in the centre of Hanoi, easy access to Hanoi downtown or the financial centre. Pacific building is offering many facilities and services: Parking lot, swimming pool, fitness centre, The Rooftop bar & lounge
Price: 1000 usd/month

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MASTER OF CEREMONIES
PhillipCenere FAIM GAICD
Phillip is the Associate Vice-Chancellor for CQ University’s New South Wales region and head of the Sydney campus. He has responsibility for business growth and development, regional engagement, teaching and learning, research and the pastoral care of students and staff.
Phillip is an experienced leader in executive education and higher education management and a non-executive director and board consultant. He previously served six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Sen...

published: 18 Aug 2017

Nauru: Australia's Guantamo Bay? - Talk to Al Jazeera (In The Field)

In 2013, Australia's government announced a tough new policy towards refugees travelling by boat to its shores. The campaign that went with it was called, "No way. You will not make Australia home".
Its goal was to discourage asylum seekers from entering the country "illegally" - as the government saw it.
Most were coming from countries such as Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Many refugees - having fled their homes - considered themselves stateless.
Their journeys were arduous and complex. Those from Iran, for instance, would travel first to Malaysia, where they could enter without a visa. Then they'd make their way to southernmost Indonesia, and from there they took boats towards Australia's closest islands.
The trips typically involved peo...

published: 10 Sep 2016

Overview of Labuan International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Offshore Financial Centres: Help or Hindrance? | 03.03.10

Prominent US economist ProfessorJames R. Hines Jr is the Richard A. MusgraveCollegiate Professor of Economics and the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He recently published a research report commissioned by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners highlighting the importance of offshore financial centres, and their contribution to the investment, employment, and the efficient functioning of markets and government policies in other countries.
He has written that:
"Offshore financial centres play a key role in the international financial system, improving the availability of credit and encouraging competition in domestic banking systems. The result is a boost in investment in the major economies, which ultimately support job creation and ...

Across the vast Indo-Pacific - a geography seemingly destined for greater growth and connectivity in the 21st century - lies a vexing paradox: In a region with so much potential, the private capital flows and private sector partnerships fundamental to fund the roughly $25 trillion in vital, regional infrastructure projects throughout the next decade are in short supply. In an era where competition is great and sources of capital seem to be cloistered with states, the region needs to rethink how it leverages private industry and private capital, linking the region with sustainable capital inflows.
The panel asked some important questions pertaining to capital convergence in the region. What will these partnerships look like and how will they more effectively use the operational efficienc...

published: 10 Feb 2018

Inside the Issues 3.25 | Financial Risk in Climate Change

Jason Thistlethwaite, Director of the Climate ChangeAdaptationProject at the University of Waterloo, joins podcast host and CIGIChair of GlobalSecurityDavid Welch for a discussion on the relationship between financial risk and climate change. The conversation begins by exploring the gap between policy maker ambitions and existing capital opportunities along with the impact this gap has on various industries. Is there opportunity in climate change? Thistlethwaite notes that as international and domestic financial regulations are consolidated and a better understanding of environmental and climate change risk is revealed, products will emerge to exploit the market contributing to a shift into a new era of risk disclosure and risk governance.

published: 03 Apr 2013

Paris Fintech Forum _ Panel Future of Finance in Europe at Fintech Age

China: Wealth and Power

‘What does the rise of China mean for the world? This question, perhaps the most important in the world at the moment, is explored at a conference sponsored by the AustralianCentre on China in the World and the CoralBell School of Asia PacificAffairs. It brings together some of the world’s best political scientists, strategists, economists, international relations experts and anthropologists to discuss how China’s rising wealth and power is changing the world’s dominant political and economic orders.
Grounded in the idea that the different disciplines need to talk to each other, and not at or past each other, the papers presented over the course of two days have all been co-authored by people from at least two disciplines, covering a broad range of topics including: the geoeconomics o...

published: 11 Apr 2016

Why China Will Not Become the Dominant Power in Asia

Public Lecture by Emeritus ProfessorPaul Dibb and Adjunct Associate ProfessorJohn Lee.
The belief that China will soon become the dominant power in Asia is based on assumptions that its continued and rapid economic rise, and its emergence as a regional peer of America’s in military terms is all but assured. Such a belief underpins arguments that a fundamental strategic reorganisation of Asia is inevitable, and that it will be necessary and perhaps even desirable to concede to China significant ‘strategic space’. Dependent largely on linear extrapolations about the future, such arguments ignore the implications of China’s economic, social and national fragilities, its lack of major friends or allies in the region as well as the considerable military deficiencies and challenges faced by t...

Doing business in Hong Kong (Full Episode)

In this episode of The AirportEconomist Tim is in Hong Kong, Asia's financial hub and the gateway to China. He get insights on doing deals, setting up shop and how to get into the Chinese market.
The Airport Economist is your guide to doing business in the Asian Century. Led by renowned economist Tim Harcourt, we'll be visiting thriving markets all across Asia to find out what the emerging opportunities are for doing business there, how to get your foot in the door, learn from companies who are successfully operating there, as well as discover the local culture.
In each episode we'll arm you with all the knowledge and insights you need to take your business international.
Visithttp://www.theairporteconomist.com/
And connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theairporteconomist/
Or...

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MASTER OF CEREMONIES
PhillipCenere FAIM GAICD
Phillip is the Associate Vice-Chancellor for CQ University’s New South Wales region and head of the Sydney campus. He has responsibility for business growth and development, regional engagement, teaching and learning, research and the pastoral care of students and staff.
Phillip is an experienced leader in executive education and higher education management and a non-executive director and board consultant. He previously served six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Senior Lecturer (Public Relations) at The University of Notre Dame (Sydney campus). He also taught across a range of business and communication subjects at Macquarie University, UTS and the University of Wollongong, and worked as a journalist for business and trade publications. He is the lead author of CommunicationSkills for Business Professionals (Cambridge University Press) and has written for CompanyDirector.
CHIEF FACILITATOR
Dr Melissa Bordogna
Melissa is an internationally known speaker, educator, consultant and award-winning learning designer. Over the last 20 years, Melissa has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities, not-for-profit institutions as well as numerous small to medium- sized enterprises producing measurable results by unleashing human potential.
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SPEAKERS
 BradChan (CEO, BannaPropertyGroup)
 LukeAustin (CFO, Huawei Technologies)
 Kumar Parakala (GlobalDigitalLeader, GHD)
 Catia Davim (Partner, Advisory Management Consulting, KPMG)
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The Future of Work (FOW) Insights Series focuses on the unfolding mega-trends of the FourthIndustrial Age, also known as the Machine Age, and the essential competencies and capabilities required for leaders to successfully navigate this rapidly evolving environment into the 2020s and beyond.
Unlike previous ages, the Fourth Industrial Age is characterised by an assortment of exponential technologies that blend the digital, biological and physical spheres and are set to create change at an unprecedented rate (Schwab, n.d.).
These disruptions and the technological displacement set to follow are predicted to impact most disciplines and industries causing us to rethink the nature of work and even what it means to be human.
The predicted disruptions and shifts of the new age provide both great promise and great threat and will invariably impact how we think about, organise and execute work. As such, the time for preparedness is now.

The Future of WorkInsightsSeries was presented by CQUniversity, Sydney in conjunction with KatalysisX and CPA Australia on 13, July 2017.
https://www.cqu.edu.au/about-us/locations/sydney
https://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/
https://www.katalysisx.com/
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MASTER OF CEREMONIES
PhillipCenere FAIM GAICD
Phillip is the Associate Vice-Chancellor for CQ University’s New South Wales region and head of the Sydney campus. He has responsibility for business growth and development, regional engagement, teaching and learning, research and the pastoral care of students and staff.
Phillip is an experienced leader in executive education and higher education management and a non-executive director and board consultant. He previously served six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Senior Lecturer (Public Relations) at The University of Notre Dame (Sydney campus). He also taught across a range of business and communication subjects at Macquarie University, UTS and the University of Wollongong, and worked as a journalist for business and trade publications. He is the lead author of CommunicationSkills for Business Professionals (Cambridge University Press) and has written for CompanyDirector.
CHIEF FACILITATOR
Dr Melissa Bordogna
Melissa is an internationally known speaker, educator, consultant and award-winning learning designer. Over the last 20 years, Melissa has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities, not-for-profit institutions as well as numerous small to medium- sized enterprises producing measurable results by unleashing human potential.
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SPEAKERS
 BradChan (CEO, BannaPropertyGroup)
 LukeAustin (CFO, Huawei Technologies)
 Kumar Parakala (GlobalDigitalLeader, GHD)
 Catia Davim (Partner, Advisory Management Consulting, KPMG)
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The Future of Work (FOW) Insights Series focuses on the unfolding mega-trends of the FourthIndustrial Age, also known as the Machine Age, and the essential competencies and capabilities required for leaders to successfully navigate this rapidly evolving environment into the 2020s and beyond.
Unlike previous ages, the Fourth Industrial Age is characterised by an assortment of exponential technologies that blend the digital, biological and physical spheres and are set to create change at an unprecedented rate (Schwab, n.d.).
These disruptions and the technological displacement set to follow are predicted to impact most disciplines and industries causing us to rethink the nature of work and even what it means to be human.
The predicted disruptions and shifts of the new age provide both great promise and great threat and will invariably impact how we think about, organise and execute work. As such, the time for preparedness is now.

Nauru: Australia's Guantamo Bay? - Talk to Al Jazeera (In The Field)

In 2013, Australia's government announced a tough new policy towards refugees travelling by boat to its shores. The campaign that went with it was called, "No w...

In 2013, Australia's government announced a tough new policy towards refugees travelling by boat to its shores. The campaign that went with it was called, "No way. You will not make Australia home".
Its goal was to discourage asylum seekers from entering the country "illegally" - as the government saw it.
Most were coming from countries such as Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Many refugees - having fled their homes - considered themselves stateless.
Their journeys were arduous and complex. Those from Iran, for instance, would travel first to Malaysia, where they could enter without a visa. Then they'd make their way to southernmost Indonesia, and from there they took boats towards Australia's closest islands.
The trips typically involved people smugglers and dangerous - sometimes deadly - journeys on boats that were often overloaded and unseaworthy.
Of the boats intercepted at sea by the Australian Border Force, many were forcibly turned back to where they'd come from. But passengers on some - and all those who did make it into Australian waters - were taken into custody, then deported, flown to neighbouring countries.
There, in Nauru and on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, they are still held in what Australia's government calls "regional processing centres".
Nauru is a tiny 29 square kilometre island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
That small independent country - a member of the United Nations - has played a central role in the history of Australia's refugee policies.
Nauru's "detention centre" first opened in 2001, under a policy brought in by Australia's conservative Liberal Party - the so-called "Pacific Solution".
But this all changed when Kevin Rudd, from the centre-left Labour party, came to power in 2007. Rudd closed Nauru's centre and most of the refugees were relocated to Australia.
But then as the number of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat started going back up, the Labour Party's government was forced to reconsider. The centre reopened in 2012.
Today, the island's detention centre is home to almost 500 people, including about 50 children.
Many of them have been there for more than three years.
But what's going on inside? Both the Nauruan and Papua New Guinean detention centres are run under a veil of secrecy, off-limits to the media and to NGOs like Amnesty International.
People working there are not allowed to talk about what they have seen. Why?
Talk to Al Jazeera sits down with former employees who have decided to break their silence to tell us about the situation inside Australia's offshore detention centres.
Are they, as the government says, having the desired effect, by discouraging people from making dangerous journeys? But are they also, as the people we spoke to say, dehumanising and dangerous?
We spoke to Evan Davis, a teacher who used to work with children living in the Australian-run camp in Nauru. Despite secrecy provisions limiting the ability of staff to talk, he decided to share his experience.
"It struck me straight away that the place was more like a military camp, a prison, more than anything else, that was efficiently run," he says. The children were referred to by personnel as numbers, not names, and Davis said the teachers endeavoured to make a point of learning the children's names.
JudithReem used to teach secondary school children on Nauru. She, herself, comes from a family of Bosnian refugees to Australia, which is one of the reasons she decided to speak out publicly. The tents where people lived, she says, she were not designed for habitation, and cultural considerations, such as spaces for people to pray, were not taken into account.
Judith Reem feels particularly bad about having prepared the children for a life in Australia which was never going to happen.
"I feel, that in retrospect, I was a part of the lie, because I was teaching them conversational English for life in Australia and that just hasn't happened," she says. The conditions were worse than in a prison, Reem says.
"Some of the children in the camp can't remember life before the camp because they were so little when they arrived," she says.
"The cloak of secrecy around it [the camps] is what allows us this plausible deniability, which is hopefully a luxury I can take away."
JenniferRose, a former elementary school teacher in Nauru, believes Australia needs to take a different approach when it comes to dealing with asylum seekers.
"How could you not be affected by seeing children retraumatised by a system that Australia has set up?" Rose asks.
Editor's note: Talk to Al Jazeera has reached out to the governments of Australia and Nauru, requesting interviews in order to guarantee their right to
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In 2013, Australia's government announced a tough new policy towards refugees travelling by boat to its shores. The campaign that went with it was called, "No way. You will not make Australia home".
Its goal was to discourage asylum seekers from entering the country "illegally" - as the government saw it.
Most were coming from countries such as Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Many refugees - having fled their homes - considered themselves stateless.
Their journeys were arduous and complex. Those from Iran, for instance, would travel first to Malaysia, where they could enter without a visa. Then they'd make their way to southernmost Indonesia, and from there they took boats towards Australia's closest islands.
The trips typically involved people smugglers and dangerous - sometimes deadly - journeys on boats that were often overloaded and unseaworthy.
Of the boats intercepted at sea by the Australian Border Force, many were forcibly turned back to where they'd come from. But passengers on some - and all those who did make it into Australian waters - were taken into custody, then deported, flown to neighbouring countries.
There, in Nauru and on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, they are still held in what Australia's government calls "regional processing centres".
Nauru is a tiny 29 square kilometre island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
That small independent country - a member of the United Nations - has played a central role in the history of Australia's refugee policies.
Nauru's "detention centre" first opened in 2001, under a policy brought in by Australia's conservative Liberal Party - the so-called "Pacific Solution".
But this all changed when Kevin Rudd, from the centre-left Labour party, came to power in 2007. Rudd closed Nauru's centre and most of the refugees were relocated to Australia.
But then as the number of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat started going back up, the Labour Party's government was forced to reconsider. The centre reopened in 2012.
Today, the island's detention centre is home to almost 500 people, including about 50 children.
Many of them have been there for more than three years.
But what's going on inside? Both the Nauruan and Papua New Guinean detention centres are run under a veil of secrecy, off-limits to the media and to NGOs like Amnesty International.
People working there are not allowed to talk about what they have seen. Why?
Talk to Al Jazeera sits down with former employees who have decided to break their silence to tell us about the situation inside Australia's offshore detention centres.
Are they, as the government says, having the desired effect, by discouraging people from making dangerous journeys? But are they also, as the people we spoke to say, dehumanising and dangerous?
We spoke to Evan Davis, a teacher who used to work with children living in the Australian-run camp in Nauru. Despite secrecy provisions limiting the ability of staff to talk, he decided to share his experience.
"It struck me straight away that the place was more like a military camp, a prison, more than anything else, that was efficiently run," he says. The children were referred to by personnel as numbers, not names, and Davis said the teachers endeavoured to make a point of learning the children's names.
JudithReem used to teach secondary school children on Nauru. She, herself, comes from a family of Bosnian refugees to Australia, which is one of the reasons she decided to speak out publicly. The tents where people lived, she says, she were not designed for habitation, and cultural considerations, such as spaces for people to pray, were not taken into account.
Judith Reem feels particularly bad about having prepared the children for a life in Australia which was never going to happen.
"I feel, that in retrospect, I was a part of the lie, because I was teaching them conversational English for life in Australia and that just hasn't happened," she says. The conditions were worse than in a prison, Reem says.
"Some of the children in the camp can't remember life before the camp because they were so little when they arrived," she says.
"The cloak of secrecy around it [the camps] is what allows us this plausible deniability, which is hopefully a luxury I can take away."
JenniferRose, a former elementary school teacher in Nauru, believes Australia needs to take a different approach when it comes to dealing with asylum seekers.
"How could you not be affected by seeing children retraumatised by a system that Australia has set up?" Rose asks.
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Overview of Labuan International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Prominent US economist ProfessorJames R. Hines Jr is the Richard A. MusgraveCollegiate Professor of Economics and the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He recently published a research report commissioned by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners highlighting the importance of offshore financial centres, and their contribution to the investment, employment, and the efficient functioning of markets and government policies in other countries.
He has written that:
"Offshore financial centres play a key role in the international financial system, improving the availability of credit and encouraging competition in domestic banking systems. The result is a boost in investment in the major economies, which ultimately support job creation and growth.
The evidence indicates that offshore centres contribute to financial development and stability in neighbouring countries, encouraging investment, employment and other aspects of business development. They have salutary effects on tax competition, promote good government, and enhance economic growth elsewhere in the world."
Professor Hines also serves as ResearchDirector of the Office of Tax Policy Research at the Ross School of Business where his research concerns various aspects of taxation. Additionally he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax PolicyForum and the co-editor of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Prominent US economist ProfessorJames R. Hines Jr is the Richard A. MusgraveCollegiate Professor of Economics and the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He recently published a research report commissioned by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners highlighting the importance of offshore financial centres, and their contribution to the investment, employment, and the efficient functioning of markets and government policies in other countries.
He has written that:
"Offshore financial centres play a key role in the international financial system, improving the availability of credit and encouraging competition in domestic banking systems. The result is a boost in investment in the major economies, which ultimately support job creation and growth.
The evidence indicates that offshore centres contribute to financial development and stability in neighbouring countries, encouraging investment, employment and other aspects of business development. They have salutary effects on tax competition, promote good government, and enhance economic growth elsewhere in the world."
Professor Hines also serves as ResearchDirector of the Office of Tax Policy Research at the Ross School of Business where his research concerns various aspects of taxation. Additionally he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax PolicyForum and the co-editor of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Jason Thistlethwaite, Director of the Climate ChangeAdaptationProject at the University of Waterloo, joins podcast host and CIGIChair of GlobalSecurityDavid Welch for a discussion on the relationship between financial risk and climate change. The conversation begins by exploring the gap between policy maker ambitions and existing capital opportunities along with the impact this gap has on various industries. Is there opportunity in climate change? Thistlethwaite notes that as international and domestic financial regulations are consolidated and a better understanding of environmental and climate change risk is revealed, products will emerge to exploit the market contributing to a shift into a new era of risk disclosure and risk governance.

Jason Thistlethwaite, Director of the Climate ChangeAdaptationProject at the University of Waterloo, joins podcast host and CIGIChair of GlobalSecurityDavid Welch for a discussion on the relationship between financial risk and climate change. The conversation begins by exploring the gap between policy maker ambitions and existing capital opportunities along with the impact this gap has on various industries. Is there opportunity in climate change? Thistlethwaite notes that as international and domestic financial regulations are consolidated and a better understanding of environmental and climate change risk is revealed, products will emerge to exploit the market contributing to a shift into a new era of risk disclosure and risk governance.

published:03 Apr 2013

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Paris Fintech Forum _ Panel Future of Finance in Europe at Fintech Age

Walking tour around Downtown Manhattan - known to be the financial district of New York. It has also been known to be the location of the World Trade Center. To commemorate the unforgettable 9/11, the place was converted to National September 11 Memorial & Museum or 9/11 Memorial. The location of the Twin Towers, where it once stood, was converted into pools or waterfalls. Just a few blocks walk will lead to the financial capital of the country - Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange.
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China: Wealth and Power

‘What does the rise of China mean for the world? This question, perhaps the most important in the world at the moment, is explored at a conference sponsored by ...

‘What does the rise of China mean for the world? This question, perhaps the most important in the world at the moment, is explored at a conference sponsored by the AustralianCentre on China in the World and the CoralBell School of Asia PacificAffairs. It brings together some of the world’s best political scientists, strategists, economists, international relations experts and anthropologists to discuss how China’s rising wealth and power is changing the world’s dominant political and economic orders.
Grounded in the idea that the different disciplines need to talk to each other, and not at or past each other, the papers presented over the course of two days have all been co-authored by people from at least two disciplines, covering a broad range of topics including: the geoeconomics of China’s One-Belt-One-Road initiative, the economics and soft power aspects of China’s low-carbon growth strategy, Chinese aid and investment in the Pacific, the United States’ economic leverage over China, the political connections of state-owned enterprises, Australian perceptions of Chinese investment in strategic industries, China’s changing role in the international production and monetary systems, and the Chinese Communist Party as a ‘selectocracy’.

‘What does the rise of China mean for the world? This question, perhaps the most important in the world at the moment, is explored at a conference sponsored by the AustralianCentre on China in the World and the CoralBell School of Asia PacificAffairs. It brings together some of the world’s best political scientists, strategists, economists, international relations experts and anthropologists to discuss how China’s rising wealth and power is changing the world’s dominant political and economic orders.
Grounded in the idea that the different disciplines need to talk to each other, and not at or past each other, the papers presented over the course of two days have all been co-authored by people from at least two disciplines, covering a broad range of topics including: the geoeconomics of China’s One-Belt-One-Road initiative, the economics and soft power aspects of China’s low-carbon growth strategy, Chinese aid and investment in the Pacific, the United States’ economic leverage over China, the political connections of state-owned enterprises, Australian perceptions of Chinese investment in strategic industries, China’s changing role in the international production and monetary systems, and the Chinese Communist Party as a ‘selectocracy’.

Processing Sea Cucumbers

This is a training video made for Pacific Island artisanal fishers. It shows methods for postharvest processing of sea cucumbers. The video was produced as part...

This is a training video made for Pacific Island artisanal fishers. It shows methods for postharvest processing of sea cucumbers. The video was produced as part of a research aid project funded by the AustralianCentre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR project FIS-2010-096), within the Department of Foreign Affairs, Australia.Hard copies (DVD discs) with voice-overs in local languages will be distributed to coastal villages in Fiji, Tonga and Kiribati.
Sea cucumbers have been fished in the Pacific Islands for more than 150 years. They are processed, using artisanal methods, into a dried form called bêche-de-mer and exported to China. Harvesting and selling sea cucumbers gives rural households vital sources of income for basic needs, health and education. In many Pacific Island villages, alternative livelihood activities are limited and fishing sea cucumbers offers one of the few income sources.
Research shows that a majority of Pacific Island fishers have had no information support to understand how to process the animals correctly. As a result, the quality of dried products is often poor and fishers get inferior prices. This problem contributes to a need to fish large quantities of sea cucumbers to meet economic needs and wastes the potential value of these resources for national economies.
The goal of the video is to help Pacific Island fishers to make better income from the sea cucumbers that they collect and reduce the wastage of potential income and food from these aquatic resources. The video and project discourages excessive fishing, since these resources are vulnerable to over-exploitation, and we do not encourage fishers to harvest sea cucumbers. Rather, the project hopes to improve postharvest processing of catches that would be made by existing fishers. By spending more time on value-adding of the fishery harvests and gaining a better income from selling the dried sea cucumbers for export, fishers might need to fish less frequently. Whether, or not, this occurs is being determined by 'before-and-after' socio-economic surveys as part of the research component of the project.
The video was made by Southern Cross University, Australia, through its NationalMarineScience Centre. Neither the funding organisation, commissioned organisation nor partner organisations that produced this DVD have any financial gain or commercial interests in the sea cucumber industry.
The video closely follows methods presented in a training manual, which can be downloaded free at:
http://aciar.gov.au/publication/cop026

This is a training video made for Pacific Island artisanal fishers. It shows methods for postharvest processing of sea cucumbers. The video was produced as part of a research aid project funded by the AustralianCentre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR project FIS-2010-096), within the Department of Foreign Affairs, Australia.Hard copies (DVD discs) with voice-overs in local languages will be distributed to coastal villages in Fiji, Tonga and Kiribati.
Sea cucumbers have been fished in the Pacific Islands for more than 150 years. They are processed, using artisanal methods, into a dried form called bêche-de-mer and exported to China. Harvesting and selling sea cucumbers gives rural households vital sources of income for basic needs, health and education. In many Pacific Island villages, alternative livelihood activities are limited and fishing sea cucumbers offers one of the few income sources.
Research shows that a majority of Pacific Island fishers have had no information support to understand how to process the animals correctly. As a result, the quality of dried products is often poor and fishers get inferior prices. This problem contributes to a need to fish large quantities of sea cucumbers to meet economic needs and wastes the potential value of these resources for national economies.
The goal of the video is to help Pacific Island fishers to make better income from the sea cucumbers that they collect and reduce the wastage of potential income and food from these aquatic resources. The video and project discourages excessive fishing, since these resources are vulnerable to over-exploitation, and we do not encourage fishers to harvest sea cucumbers. Rather, the project hopes to improve postharvest processing of catches that would be made by existing fishers. By spending more time on value-adding of the fishery harvests and gaining a better income from selling the dried sea cucumbers for export, fishers might need to fish less frequently. Whether, or not, this occurs is being determined by 'before-and-after' socio-economic surveys as part of the research component of the project.
The video was made by Southern Cross University, Australia, through its NationalMarineScience Centre. Neither the funding organisation, commissioned organisation nor partner organisations that produced this DVD have any financial gain or commercial interests in the sea cucumber industry.
The video closely follows methods presented in a training manual, which can be downloaded free at:
http://aciar.gov.au/publication/cop026

published:05 Dec 2014

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Best Documentary 2017 THE STORY of Old HONG KONG Full rare Documentary

In this episode of The AirportEconomist Tim is in Hong Kong, Asia's financial hub and the gateway to China. He get insights on doing deals, setting up shop and how to get into the Chinese market.
The Airport Economist is your guide to doing business in the Asian Century. Led by renowned economist Tim Harcourt, we'll be visiting thriving markets all across Asia to find out what the emerging opportunities are for doing business there, how to get your foot in the door, learn from companies who are successfully operating there, as well as discover the local culture.
In each episode we'll arm you with all the knowledge and insights you need to take your business international.
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In this episode of The AirportEconomist Tim is in Hong Kong, Asia's financial hub and the gateway to China. He get insights on doing deals, setting up shop and how to get into the Chinese market.
The Airport Economist is your guide to doing business in the Asian Century. Led by renowned economist Tim Harcourt, we'll be visiting thriving markets all across Asia to find out what the emerging opportunities are for doing business there, how to get your foot in the door, learn from companies who are successfully operating there, as well as discover the local culture.
In each episode we'll arm you with all the knowledge and insights you need to take your business international.
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Pacific Financial Center Fire Life Safety Video

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The owners and management of the PacificFinancial Center are concerned with the personal safety of everyone in the building. Pacific Financial Center is one of the premier office locations in the entire Los Angeles area.
We are proud of the facilities and services we provide for the comfort, convenience and safety of all of you who make this your professional and business home.
It is the purpose of this video to identify potential hazards and outline some procedures each of us should follow. We sincerely hope that no such emergency will ever occur. If one does, however, each one of us will be better prepared to cope with that possible future emergency after completion of this brief course of instruction.
This video is a supplement to our existing tenant Fire/LifeSafetyProgram. Please watch the video above, complete and return the certificate of compliance that was forwarded to you.
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Asia Pacific's Leading Midshore International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

In his presentation, Mr Hiu Chee Fatt, Director of Business Development at Labuan IBFC Inc...

Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has completed a public plaza with a haphazard layout in Catalinas Norte, the financial heart of Buenos Aires.
The urban landscape, named PlazaCatalinas, is made up of triangular segments and sits at the foot of a glass tower in the business district.
Designed to defy the rigidity of its metropolitan surroundings, architects Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden introduced a haphazard layout, with variations in surface heights and finishes.
"The irregular geometry of the plot contrasts with the orthogonal footprint of the tower, which liberates the surrounding area with undefined identity” Adamo Faiden told Dezeen.
"The design process consisted of compressing and dilating this pattern, both horizontally and vertically," they continued. "In this way, vehicular accesses, fire escapes, lighting racks, all types of ventilation, pedestrian circuits and vegetation, could be integrated into the project."
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Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio teamed up to design this pair of 180-metre skyscrapers, which stand at the intersection of Shanghai's old town and a new financial district, the BundFinanceCentre.
The "landmark" towers are located on the south side of the Bund Finance Centre, a 420,000-square-metre masterplan developed by the two studios.
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Hong Kong Two Decades: Financial center vows to grow fintech

Hong Kong is more known for its financial expertise than technological innovations. So wit...

The Ocean Cleanup will begin extracting plastic from the Pacific in 2018

A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months.
The Ocean Cleanup foundation, initiated by Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat when he was just 20 years old, announced the development at an event in Utrecht earlier this month.
Slat said the first major operation will begin in 2018 in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of mainly plastic waste located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
The team will use a floating barrier to slowly push the plastic to shore. This update of the initial design, which was recognised at the Designs of The Year awards in 2015, will be weighted to move with the current instead of fixed to the sea bed. Once ashore, the waste plastic would be recycled and turned into sellable products to help fund the project.
"We thought what if instead of fixing the system to the seabed, we fixed it to this deeper water level where the current isn't as strong," said Slat. "The system would start to drift – but that's entirely okay because as long as it moves slower than the plastic we will collect plastic."
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Is China threatening Asia's financial center? | CNBC Explains

CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explains how Hong Kong's significance is coming under pressure as China pushes to become more open to the world.
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Accelerating Financial Inclusion in the Least Developed Countries in Asia and Pacific

The 72nd session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) ...

SAN FRANCISCO (1996) VIEW BY CABLE CAR,THE MOST POPULOUS CITY IN CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358The only consolidated city-county in California,it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.
In 1776, the Spanish established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site. The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
Today, San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, renowned for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions,helping to make San Francisco eighteenth place in the world's top producing cities, ninth in the United States, and fifteenth place in the top twenty Global Financial Centers.

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ASTANA INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER TO BECOME FUTURE FINANCIAL HUB

AIFC will actively cooperate with the the United Nations Economic and Social Commission fo...

The Future of WorkInsightsSeries was presented by CQUniversity, Sydney in conjunction with KatalysisX and CPA Australia on 13, July 2017.
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PhillipCenere FAIM GAICD
Phillip is the Associate Vice-Chancellor for CQ University’s New South Wales region and head of the Sydney campus. He has responsibility for business growth and development, regional engagement, teaching and learning, research and the pastoral care of students and staff.
Phillip is an experienced leader in executive education and higher education management and a non-executive director and board consultant. He previously served six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Senior Lecturer (Public Relations) at The University of Notre Dame (Sydney campus). He also taught across a range of business and communication subjects at Macquarie University, UTS and the University of Wollongong, and worked as a journalist for business and trade publications. He is the lead author of CommunicationSkills for Business Professionals (Cambridge University Press) and has written for CompanyDirector.
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Melissa is an internationally known speaker, educator, consultant and award-winning learning designer. Over the last 20 years, Melissa has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities, not-for-profit institutions as well as numerous small to medium- sized enterprises producing measurable results by unleashing human potential.
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The Future of Work (FOW) Insights Series focuses on the unfolding mega-trends of the FourthIndustrial Age, also known as the Machine Age, and the essential competencies and capabilities required for leaders to successfully navigate this rapidly evolving environment into the 2020s and beyond.
Unlike previous ages, the Fourth Industrial Age is characterised by an assortment of exponential technologies that blend the digital, biological and physical spheres and are set to create change at an unprecedented rate (Schwab, n.d.).
These disruptions and the technological displacement set to follow are predicted to impact most disciplines and industries causing us to rethink the nature of work and even what it means to be human.
The predicted disruptions and shifts of the new age provide both great promise and great threat and will invariably impact how we think about, organise and execute work. As such, the time for preparedness is now.

25:01

Nauru: Australia's Guantamo Bay? - Talk to Al Jazeera (In The Field)

In 2013, Australia's government announced a tough new policy towards refugees travelling b...

Nauru: Australia's Guantamo Bay? - Talk to Al Jazeera (In The Field)

In 2013, Australia's government announced a tough new policy towards refugees travelling by boat to its shores. The campaign that went with it was called, "No way. You will not make Australia home".
Its goal was to discourage asylum seekers from entering the country "illegally" - as the government saw it.
Most were coming from countries such as Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Many refugees - having fled their homes - considered themselves stateless.
Their journeys were arduous and complex. Those from Iran, for instance, would travel first to Malaysia, where they could enter without a visa. Then they'd make their way to southernmost Indonesia, and from there they took boats towards Australia's closest islands.
The trips typically involved people smugglers and dangerous - sometimes deadly - journeys on boats that were often overloaded and unseaworthy.
Of the boats intercepted at sea by the Australian Border Force, many were forcibly turned back to where they'd come from. But passengers on some - and all those who did make it into Australian waters - were taken into custody, then deported, flown to neighbouring countries.
There, in Nauru and on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, they are still held in what Australia's government calls "regional processing centres".
Nauru is a tiny 29 square kilometre island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
That small independent country - a member of the United Nations - has played a central role in the history of Australia's refugee policies.
Nauru's "detention centre" first opened in 2001, under a policy brought in by Australia's conservative Liberal Party - the so-called "Pacific Solution".
But this all changed when Kevin Rudd, from the centre-left Labour party, came to power in 2007. Rudd closed Nauru's centre and most of the refugees were relocated to Australia.
But then as the number of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat started going back up, the Labour Party's government was forced to reconsider. The centre reopened in 2012.
Today, the island's detention centre is home to almost 500 people, including about 50 children.
Many of them have been there for more than three years.
But what's going on inside? Both the Nauruan and Papua New Guinean detention centres are run under a veil of secrecy, off-limits to the media and to NGOs like Amnesty International.
People working there are not allowed to talk about what they have seen. Why?
Talk to Al Jazeera sits down with former employees who have decided to break their silence to tell us about the situation inside Australia's offshore detention centres.
Are they, as the government says, having the desired effect, by discouraging people from making dangerous journeys? But are they also, as the people we spoke to say, dehumanising and dangerous?
We spoke to Evan Davis, a teacher who used to work with children living in the Australian-run camp in Nauru. Despite secrecy provisions limiting the ability of staff to talk, he decided to share his experience.
"It struck me straight away that the place was more like a military camp, a prison, more than anything else, that was efficiently run," he says. The children were referred to by personnel as numbers, not names, and Davis said the teachers endeavoured to make a point of learning the children's names.
JudithReem used to teach secondary school children on Nauru. She, herself, comes from a family of Bosnian refugees to Australia, which is one of the reasons she decided to speak out publicly. The tents where people lived, she says, she were not designed for habitation, and cultural considerations, such as spaces for people to pray, were not taken into account.
Judith Reem feels particularly bad about having prepared the children for a life in Australia which was never going to happen.
"I feel, that in retrospect, I was a part of the lie, because I was teaching them conversational English for life in Australia and that just hasn't happened," she says. The conditions were worse than in a prison, Reem says.
"Some of the children in the camp can't remember life before the camp because they were so little when they arrived," she says.
"The cloak of secrecy around it [the camps] is what allows us this plausible deniability, which is hopefully a luxury I can take away."
JenniferRose, a former elementary school teacher in Nauru, believes Australia needs to take a different approach when it comes to dealing with asylum seekers.
"How could you not be affected by seeing children retraumatised by a system that Australia has set up?" Rose asks.
Editor's note: Talk to Al Jazeera has reached out to the governments of Australia and Nauru, requesting interviews in order to guarantee their right to
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Overview of Labuan International Business and Financial Centre, Hiu Chee Fatt

Offshore Financial Centres: Help or Hindrance? | 03.03.10

Prominent US economist ProfessorJames R. Hines Jr is the Richard A. MusgraveCollegiate Professor of Economics and the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He recently published a research report commissioned by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners highlighting the importance of offshore financial centres, and their contribution to the investment, employment, and the efficient functioning of markets and government policies in other countries.
He has written that:
"Offshore financial centres play a key role in the international financial system, improving the availability of credit and encouraging competition in domestic banking systems. The result is a boost in investment in the major economies, which ultimately support job creation and growth.
The evidence indicates that offshore centres contribute to financial development and stability in neighbouring countries, encouraging investment, employment and other aspects of business development. They have salutary effects on tax competition, promote good government, and enhance economic growth elsewhere in the world."
Professor Hines also serves as ResearchDirector of the Office of Tax Policy Research at the Ross School of Business where his research concerns various aspects of taxation. Additionally he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax PolicyForum and the co-editor of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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Tianjin 2012 - The Future of Finance

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Inside the Issues 3.25 | Financial Risk in Climate Change

Jason Thistlethwaite, Director of the Climate ChangeAdaptationProject at the University of Waterloo, joins podcast host and CIGIChair of GlobalSecurityDavid Welch for a discussion on the relationship between financial risk and climate change. The conversation begins by exploring the gap between policy maker ambitions and existing capital opportunities along with the impact this gap has on various industries. Is there opportunity in climate change? Thistlethwaite notes that as international and domestic financial regulations are consolidated and a better understanding of environmental and climate change risk is revealed, products will emerge to exploit the market contributing to a shift into a new era of risk disclosure and risk governance.

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Paris Fintech Forum _ Panel Future of Finance in Europe at Fintech Age

Walking from World Trade Center to Wall Street in Downtown Manhattan, New York City 【4K】

Walking tour around Downtown Manhattan - known to be the financial district of New York. It has also been known to be the location of the World Trade Center. To commemorate the unforgettable 9/11, the place was converted to National September 11 Memorial & Museum or 9/11 Memorial. The location of the Twin Towers, where it once stood, was converted into pools or waterfalls. Just a few blocks walk will lead to the financial capital of the country - Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange.
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China: Wealth and Power

‘What does the rise of China mean for the world? This question, perhaps the most important in the world at the moment, is explored at a conference sponsored by the AustralianCentre on China in the World and the CoralBell School of Asia PacificAffairs. It brings together some of the world’s best political scientists, strategists, economists, international relations experts and anthropologists to discuss how China’s rising wealth and power is changing the world’s dominant political and economic orders.
Grounded in the idea that the different disciplines need to talk to each other, and not at or past each other, the papers presented over the course of two days have all been co-authored by people from at least two disciplines, covering a broad range of topics including: the geoeconomics of China’s One-Belt-One-Road initiative, the economics and soft power aspects of China’s low-carbon growth strategy, Chinese aid and investment in the Pacific, the United States’ economic leverage over China, the political connections of state-owned enterprises, Australian perceptions of Chinese investment in strategic industries, China’s changing role in the international production and monetary systems, and the Chinese Communist Party as a ‘selectocracy’.